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Helen Levitt

(American, 1913–2009)

Helen Levitt

New York, 1938–1948

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Helen Levitt

New York, ca. 1940

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Helen Levitt

Bronx, New York, ca. 1942

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Helen Levitt

New York, ca. 1940

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Helen Levitt

New York, ca. 1939

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Helen Levitt

New York, ca. 1945

6,000 USD

Helen Levitt

New York, ca. 1940

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Helen Levitt

New York, 1942

7,500 USD

Biography

Timeline

1913: Born August 31 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, NY.
1931: Began working for J. Florian Mitchell, a commercial portrait photographer in the Bronx.
1935: Met Henri Cartier-Bresson when he spent a year in New York.
1936: Bought a secondhand Leica, the camera Cartier-Bresson favored.
1939: Had her first work published in Fortune Magazine's issue on New York City.
1940: Her her Halloween picture was included in the inaugural exhibition of the Museum of Modern Art’s photography department.
1943: Has her first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art.
1946: Photography Fellowship, Museum of Modern Art, New York Selected
1949: Nomination in the category „Best Story and Screenplay“ for the screenplay of “The Quiet One“ (1948), Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Beverly Hills, CA
: Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York
1959: Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship.
1960: Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship.
: Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York
1964: Ford Foundation Fellowship (for filmmaking), New York
1974: Creative Artist's Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, New York
1976: Photography Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Washington D.C.
1981: Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York
1987: Peer Award for Distinguished Career in Photography, Friends of Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art
1997: Master of Photography Award, International Center of Photography, New York
2009: Died in her home in Manhattan on March 29, at age 95.

Exhibitions

2015: In the Street, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA, (solo)
: America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY American Scene Photography: Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA, (solo)
: 30th Anniversary Exhibition – 30 Years 31 Photographers, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Now You See It: Photography and Concealment, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA
: Playground. Reinventing the Square, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
: Nonage, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
: Eclectic, Gitterman Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: In The Street, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, USA, (solo)
: New York Photographs from the Collection, Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, USA
: The Plot Thickens, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
: Playground. Reinventing the Square, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
: Eclectic, Gitterman Gallery, New York City, NY, USA Nonage, Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp, Belgium
2014: The Plot Thickens, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA New York Photographs from the Collection, Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, USA Suspended Moments: Photographs from the David. S. Rosen Collection, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbot, MI, USA, (solo)
: Suspended Moments: Photographs from the David. S. Rosen Collection, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbot, MI, USA
: Light Sensitive, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
: Conta Tàpies, Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
: Act/Natural: Photography, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, USA
: A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. , USA
2013: Private Dramas, Public Dreams: The Street Photographs of Helen Levitt & Friends, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, USA
: Le Pont, Musées d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
: La Triennale 2012 – Intense Proximity, La Triennale, Paris, France
: 100 Years of Photography, The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, VA, USA
: Looking Forward – Looking Back, G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
: Picturing New York, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
: Aipad Photography Show 2012, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: New Vision, ARGENTIC, Paris, France
: American Photography, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
: In Search of Time, Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI, USA
: City Scenes: Highlights of New York Street Photography, Museum of the City of New York, New York City, NY, USA
: Just Kids, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA, (solo)
: Howard Greenberg Collection, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, France
: The Dwelling Life of Man, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
2012: Deck the Walls, Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
: Road Atlas. Straßenfotografie aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk, Cottbus, Germany
2011: Childish Things, Tabla Rasa Gallery, New York City, NY, USA Road Atlas. Straßenfotografie aus der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, Germany
: Photographs, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, USA In a New York Minute: Photographs by Helen Levitt, Cantor Arts Center at Standford University, Stanford, CA, USA, (solo)
: The Dwelling Life of Man. Photographs from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
: Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Framed: Street Photography from the Collection, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
: Furthermore: 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
: Body Language, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Líríca Urbana. Fotografías 1936-1993. Photo Espana 2010, Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid, Spain, (solo)
: Un Lyrisme Urbain - Le Point du Jour, Centre d'Art Éditeur, Cherbourg-Octeville, France, (solo)
: Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
: New Yorkers, Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, Germany, (solo)
: Starbust: Color Photography in America 1970-1980, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA
: Mexico Beyond Its Revolution, Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA, USA
: México: esperdao/inesperado, Espace de Création Contemporaine, Charleroi, France
: My Base II / Photographs I saw in 80’s in NY, Kurenboh – Chohouin Buddhist Temple Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2010: Ojos Privados: Selections from the Collection of Laurence Miller, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Past, Present, Future II, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: 25th Anniversary Celebration, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Helen Levitt - A Memorial Tribute, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
: The Knight Purchase Award: Helen Levitt, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA, (solo)
: New York Photographs, Kahmann Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, (solo)
: Helen Levitt: A Photographer's Legacy, Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, USA, (solo)
: This Is Not A Fashion Photograph: Selections from the ICP Collection, International Center of Photography, New York City, NY, USA
: Photography on the Street, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, USA
: Modern Moments: Recent Gifts in American Photography, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA
: Immaginare New York. Fotografie dalla collezione del MoMA, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
: Assembly, Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, BC, USA
: Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Group Show, Only-photography, Berlin, Germany
: Mexico: Expected/Unexpected. Collection Isabel and Augustín Coppel, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands; Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 38 AT 38, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
2009: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: Reality Revisited, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: City Portraits, Deborah Bell/Photographs, New York City, NY, USA
: POST-WAR PERSPECTIVES 1945-1960, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Presumed Innocence: Photographic Perspectives of Children, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA
: Selections One, Charles A. Hartman Fine Art, Portland, CO, USA
: The implications of image, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City, Mexico
: In The Street, Foam Fotografiemuseums, Amsterdamm, The Netherlands Spectrum, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany, (solo)
: Peripheral vision and collective body, MUSEION, Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
: Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
: A Mind at Play, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
: Images Du Corps, Vertiges Et Vestiges, Musée Régional D’Art Contemporain Languedoc- Roussillon, Sérignan, France
: When color was new. Vintage photographs from around the 1970s, Julie Saul Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Ojos privados Colección Laurence Miller, Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain I AM I A KILLER, Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: Street & Studio. Eine urbane Geschichte der Fotografie, Museum Folkwang, Essen; Tate Modern, London, UK
2008: Mexico: Expected/Unexpected. Collection Isabel and Augustín Coppel, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
: Henri Cartier-Bresson & Helen Levitt – Side by Side, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Diane Arbus – Helen Levitt: A Conversation, Laurene Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Review – 4 Jahre Galerie f5,6, Galerie f5,6 für Fotografie, Munich, Germany
: On The Street – The New York School of Photographers, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
: VIP, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia
: Icons of American Photography, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
: Past (Present) Future, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Photographic Formalities: From Ansel Adams to Weegee, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, USA
: MACBA im Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
: Empty Nest: The Changing Face of Childhood in Art. 1880 to the Present, Nathan A. Bernstein Co. Ltd., New York City, NY, USA
: The New York School 1936-63, Galerie Stepehen Hoffman, Munich, Germany
2007: Documenta XII, Kassel, Germany
: Fandation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France, (solo)
: Photography Collection, Galeria Ramis Barquet, New York City, NY, USA
: Metro Pictures, part two, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL, USA
: The Streets of New York: American Photographs from the Collection, 1938-1958, The National Galler of Art, Washington D.C. , USA
: EyeWitness, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden
: Galerie F5,6 für Fotografie, Munich, Germany, (solo)
: Several Exceptionally Good Recently Aquired Pictures XVIII, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
: Porträt der Straße, Fotografien aus drei Jahrhunderten, Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, Kaufbeuren, Germany
2006: Portraits of Artists, Luhring Ausgustine, New York City, NY, USA
: Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, USA, (solo)
: Americans – Masterpieces of American Photography from 1940 until now, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
: Tiefenschärfe, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
: La Photographie á l’Épreuve, Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
: Defining Moments, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA
: SlideShow, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA, (solo)
: Faces in the Crowd – Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Castello di Rivoli Mudeo d’Arte Contempranea, Turin, Italy
: Into The Unknown – Abstraction From The Collection, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: looking at america, Galerie Hohenlohe, Vienna, Austria
: SlideShow, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; Brooklyn Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2005: De la comtesse De Castiglione a Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris
: Surface – Group Show, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Defining Moments, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA
2004: Few Are Chosen: Street Photography and the Book, 1936-1966, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA
: Illusion of Innocence, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, USA
: Yet Untitled – Die Sammlung Bernd F. Künne, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany;
: The National Museum of Photography, The Black Diamond, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Vintage Graffiti, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA, (solo)
: A proposal for an exhibition, Monte Clark Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
: Les choix dCB, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, France
: Hot Summer in the City, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Contortion Distortion – Group Selection, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: City Streets, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, USA
2003: Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, USA, (solo)
: The Art of Street Photography, Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2002: New York: Capital of Photography, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, USA
: New York Observed: The Mythology of the City, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
: Through the Looking Glass, Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
: Americans – Meisterwerke der amerikanischen Photographie, Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, Germany
: New York, Capital of Photography, The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY, USA
: A Bird Show, Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
: Graffiti, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA, (solo)
: Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA, USA, (solo)
: A Room Of Their Own – From Rothko to Rauschenberg, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: The Social Scene, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, MA; The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL, USA
2001: Crosstown, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA, (solo)
: The Passions: From Brueghel to Viola, James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2000: Moodstruck – Photographs from the Permanent Collection, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, MA, USA
: Recent Prints, Chalk Drawing Murals, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA, (solo)
1999: Mexico City 1941: Photographs by Helen Levitt, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA, (solo)
: The Promise of Photography: Selected Works from the DG Bank Collection, MoMA PS1, New York City, NY, USA; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
: Mexico City 1941, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, (solo)
1998: Paved With Gold, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, UK
: Helen Levitt & Roger Mayne – Vintage Street Photographs, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
: Helen Levitt, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany, (solo)
: Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria, (solo)
: Ciudad de México, 1941, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico, (solo)
: Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, (solo)
: Center for Creative Photography, Arizona
: International Center of Photography, NY
1997: Crosstown, ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY, USA, (solo)
: Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
1996: Highlights of the Permanent Collection, International Center of Photography, NY
: Recent Acquisitions, Metropolitain Museum of Art, NY
: Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY, USA, (solo)
1995: Fact & Fiction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, USA
: American Photography 1890-1965, Museum of Modern Art NY(traveled)
1994: Mexico through foreign eyes, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy
: Fotografias, Diputación, Granada, Spain, (solo)
: Vintage Chalk Drawings 1938-1948, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA, (solo)
: In Transit, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY, USA
: Motion and Document/Sequence and Time: Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
: Helen Levitt and Mary Ellen Mark, Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA
: Photography, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA, (solo)
: Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver, BC, Canada, (solo)
1993: Photographs, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT, USA, (solo)
: Zelda Gallery, London, UK, (solo)
1992: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA, (solo)
: Photographs, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. , USA
: SF Museum of Modern Art & other locations in San Francisco, NY, Washington DC, Michigan, Chicago, & Seattle
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1991: Mean Streets, Museum of Modern Art, NY
: American Documents in the Fringe, Tokyo Metropolitan of Photography, Tokio, Japan, (solo)
1990: The Indomitable Spirit: Photographers And Artists Respond In , USA The Time Of Aids, International Center of Photography, New York City, NY
: Little Known Photographs by Helen Levitt, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA, (solo)
: On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art & Art Institute of Chicago Washington, DC & Chicago
1989: Noted Women Photographers oft he 20’s and 30’s, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1988: Convulsive Beauty, Whitney Museum of Art, Downtown NY
: Photographers Gallery, London
1987: American Dreams, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. Spain
1986: Eighteen Color Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA, (solo)
: Photography: A Facet of Modernism, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalog) San Francisco
1984: Photographs from the Collection of the Nat'l Endowment for the Arts, National Museum of American Art Washington, DC
1983: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
: Prototypes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY, USA
1982: In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum 1948-1982, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, USA
: Matrix 47, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA, (solo)
1981: The New Color: A Decade of Color Photography, International Center of Photography, New York City, NY, USA
: Matrix 66, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, USA, (solo)
: Corcoran Gallery of Art (catalog), Washington, DC
1980: Photography, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA, (solo)
1978: New Standpoints: 1940-1955, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
1974: Projects: Helen Levitt in Color, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA, (solo)
: Museum of Modern Art, NY
1973: The Responsible Eye, Three Decades of the Photograph as Document, Centre For Contemporary Art, Montreal, QC, Canada
1971: Photographs of Women, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
1963: 3 Photographers in Color, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
1957: 70 Photographers Look at New York, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
1949: Photography (6 Women Photographers), Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
: Museum of Modern Art, NY
: Photographs of Children, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA, (solo)
1943: Action Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
1940: The New Department of Photography, Inaugural Exhibition of the Department of Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA

Public Collections

: New York Public Library, New York City, NY, USA
: SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
: The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia Art Museums, Charlottesville, VA, USA
: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
: Telfair Museums, Savannah, GA, USA
: Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
: IAC Institut d’Art Contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
: National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
: MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
: Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C., USA
: LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, USA
: MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA

Literature

2011: Beate Kemfert, Christina Leber. Road Atlas: Straßenfotografie von Helen Levitt bis Pieter Hugo. Hirmer Verlag, Munich, Germany
2010: Jean-Francois Chevrier. Helen Levitt. In: Jean-Francois Chevrier. Les relations du corps. ARACHNEEN Publishing
2009: Helen Levitt: A Memorial Tribute Catalog. Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, USA
2008: Helen Levitt, Walker Evans. Helen Levitt. Photographs by Helen Levitt. Text by Walker Evans. PowerHouse, New York, USA
: Inka Schube, Walker Evans. Helen Levitt. Fotografien 1937-1991. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany
: Inka Schaube. Helen Levitt: Fotografien 1937-1991. Spectrum – Internationaler Preis für Fotografie der Stiftung Niedersachsen 2008. Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
2005: John Szarkowski, Helen Levitt. Helen Levitt: Slide Show: The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt. PowerHouse, New York, USA
: Andrea Henkens. Flanerie in der Großstadt: Auf der Suche nach dem Anderem im Alltäglichen. Surreale Blickweisen in den Fotografien von Helen Levitt. Tectum Verlag, Marburg, Germany
2004: Helen Levitt, Adam Gopnik. Helen Levitt: Here And There. PowerHouse, New York, USA
2001: Helen Levitt, Francine Prose. Helen Levitt: Crosstown. PowerHouse, New York, USA
1999: Peter Weiermair, Helen Levitt, James Agee. Helen Levitt. Prestel Verlag, Munich, Germany
1998: Michael Scholz-Hänsel. Soziale Ausgrenzung und Moral. Von Helen Levitt zu Christoph Schlingensief. In: Kritische Berichte, Ulmer Verein, Ulm, Germany
1997: Helen Levitt. Helen Levitt: Mexico City. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, USA
: Barbara Otto. Streetlife. Zu den Photographien von Helen Levitt. In: Werner Stehr, Johannes Kirschenmann. Materialien zur documenta X. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, Germany
1990: Katherine Dieckmann. Mean Streets. Helen Levitt’s photographs of New York. In: Art in America, New York, USA
1987: Helen Levitt. In The Street: Chalk Drawings and Messages, New York City, 1938-1948. Duke University Press, Durham, USA
1977: Andy Grundberg. Helen Levitt at Carlton. In: Art in America, New York, USA
1965: Helen Levitt. A Way of Seeing. Viking Adult, New York, USA

Helen Levitt

(American, 1913–2009)

Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt

Helen Levitt

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